Diop’s riveting meta-drama receives a series of extras that exalt its wide-ranging themes.
If courtroom dramas are usually about taking a stand, Saint Omer shows us that the most impactful truths often go unspoken.
It reveals itself as vacuous and cold, a bizarrely seductive pseudo-thriller lacking a thoroughly worked-out payoff.
It finds its filmmaker lost between impulses to pay homage, play it safe, or offer something—anything—new.
High Society feels more genuine when it approaches the ethos of François Ozon’s underrated Young and Beautiful.
The weirdly direct connections made and explored are unlikely, but are performed with such engaging and strange conviction that the film nearly overcomes the thinness of its conceit.
Fans of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind may consider the film a downgrade but you cannot deny its passion.
La Commune (Paris, 1871) is a disjointed, whirling dervish of utopian ideas and devil-may-care indulgence.
There’s little doubting that La Commune is a grand summation of Watkins’s sensibilities.
The difference between Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep is the difference between a good pop song and a great punk record.